Comment by w0mbat

This is a story I heard when I worked at the BBC. Years ago the BBC had many reports of bad reception in a certain part of the UK. Eventually they traced it to a isolated house near a BBC broadcast tower. The resident had rigged up a big induction coil on his property and he was leaching hundreds of watts from the tower's transmissions. He was using the power to run his house lighting "for free", not realizing he was casting a huge detectible shadow. The story says that he was prosecuted.

If anybody has any hard details or can confirm this BBC legend it would make me very happy.